Slide-loop holder



C. H. GRINGS.

SLIDE LOOP HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED Auc.2s 1919.

1,341,314, Patented May 25, 1920.

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Atto rzz UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CASPER HUGO GRINGS, OF WATERLOO, IOWA.

SLIDE-LOOP HOLDER.

Application filed August 25, 1919.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CASPER H. Games, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Waterloo, Blackhawk county, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Slide-Loop Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in slide loop holders, and the object of my improvement is to provide effective means for holding or retaining leather slide loops in proper positions wherever used in parts of harness, on luggage bags, or other goods where rings, Ds or the like elements are associated therewith, and the holding means is arranged to be concealed, while also serving to strengthen the loops andpreserve them from wear.

This object I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figures 1 and 2 are perspective views of a leather blank and the blank formed into a slide loop, respectively; Figs. 3 and 1 are a plan and an elevation, respectively, of a metal fastening, reinforcing and bearing-bar, before and after its initial bending; Figs. 5 and 6 are perspective views, respectively, of a metal blank, and the same shaped into an eyeleted hook; Fig. 7 is a medial longitudr nal section of said slide loop, showing sa1d metal hook pivotally mounted on the pintle end parts of said fastening and reinforcing bar; Fig. 8 is a view of the slide loop assembled with the hook, showing said fastening bar in position to be clenched to and through the loop and to position its ends Within the eyelet of the hook; Fig. 9 is a perspective view of the parts shown in Fig. 8 as assembled; Fig. 10 is a side elevation of the same parts associated with a looped strap and with a ring, and Fig. 11 is a fragmentary perspective view of said parts as used to connect a handle to an object to be lifted.

Similar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The essential elements of my device which are to be assembled with the bight of a flexible strap 9, are a collar or loop 1 formed of relatively rigid material, a wear-hook 5-7 ivotally mounted in the loop 1, and a comined reinforcing, fastening and pintle ehment' 2.

The loop 1 may be formed from an Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 25, 1920.

Serial No. 319,623.

elongated strip of leather or other relatively stlff material which can be bent into the shape of a rectangular split loop as shown in Fig. 2, by any suitable forming device.

lhe resilient hook has its recurved t1p 7 spaced narrowly enough from the body part 5 to make it necessary to spread the tip apart to insert a ring 10 or a D 12 as illustrated in Figs. 10 and 11 respectively, and the hook is shaped from a blank 5 of metal by suitable forming tools, and has an end recurved oppositely to its hooked part 7 to provide a bearing eye 6. The numeral 2 denotes a rod whose opposite extremities are conically pointed at 1, and whose middle part is widened and somewhat thickened at 2. This red, by means of suitable tools, has its end parts or members 3 bent to one side and the extremities 4 then bent inwardly to be alined with each other but spaced apart as shown in said Fig. 4:."

Referring to Figs. 8 and 9, in Fig. 8, the partially closed device 2 is shown as positioned with its terminal points 4 placed to contact with the middles of the outer side faces of the collar or loop 1, with the eye 6 of the hook 7 positioned medially within said loop alined with said points. In practice, all these parts are mounted in and 0perated on by means not shown, omitted from the drawing for the sake of clearness. lVhen the points 1 are caused to pierce the sides of said loop, they enter the eye 6 of the hook 7, supplying pintles therefor, while the flat tened part 2 contacts the loop across the split therein, and the rod members 3 then clasp and reinforce the loop, holding it rigid and keeping it in shape. It will be observed that the pintles 1 and hook eye 6 are positioned medially .between the top and bottom of the loop 1, which renders the interspaces of equal dimensions to receive and permit the passage of parts of the strap 9 therethrough freely without obstruction, while the medial position of the pintles allows direct and medial draft of the hook on said loop.

liigs. 10 and 11 show assembla es of said linked elements with the bight o a strap 9 and with a ring or D 10 respectively. It will be seen that the parts of the strap, after encircling the book 7, pass freely through the two openings of the loop 1. The hook 7 ble for many uses, and minor changes in materlal, dimensions or arrangements will therefore fall w1th1n the scope of my invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In combination, a perforable flexible split collar, a hook having an eye positioned medially within the hollow of said collar, and a rod placed across the split in. the collar and bent at its ends across theopposite sides of the collar wlth its extremities bent toward each other,-perforating the sides of the collar to enter and serve as pintles for .the collar With its extremities pointed and piercing the adjacent sides of the collar, extending inwardly thereof to be received into and serve as pintles for the eye of said hook.

3. In combination, a leather collar, a hook having an eye positioned Within the hollow of the collar, and pintles extending from the middles of opposite side walls of the collar into the eye of said hook permitting swinging of the latter, and dividing the collar into equal height interspaces.

' 4. In combination, a collar, a resilient :weanplate having a bearing orifice at one end and a recurred hook at the other, a pintle pivotally engaged with said collar and received within said bearing-orifice, and a ring passed into said hook only by spreading apart its hook, reactively.

Signed at Waterloo, lowa, this 4th day oi 40 Aug, 1919.

- CASPER HUGO GRINGS. 

